Thursday Links

I thought I would catch up on some of the surfing I have been doing this week and share some of what I have found. The Iowa flood victims are moving into clean-up mode and President Bush was in Iowa today to tour. Here are some things I have been reading lately:

• Greg Ness (VP at Bluelane) has a couple of excellent articles I enjoyed. The first one is "Data Center Security - 5 Critical Requirements", and the second is "Clouds - Clear Skies for Data Center Virtualization?".

• I think I had run across the following link a while back, but forgot about it. On the side I dabble a little in search engine optimization techniques, and the Google Data Center Research Tool is kind of fun. As my friend Ben would point out about their site though.... "C-Class" does not refer to IP Space, only to a Mercedes-Benz. :)

• Chris Brogan has a nice article on "Five Tools I use to Listen".

• GigaOm's site Ostatic has a post on Eucalyptus - Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing.

• ComputerWorld - IBM Hits a Home Run - Globabally Distributed Data Center Virtualization.

• Here is an interesting story about the CERN particle accelerator network and distribution of 15 petabytes that the project generates annually.

• As confirmation to my recent Systems Management news article about Data Center staffing -- NY Times: "Demand for Data Puts Engineers in Spotlight". I would also remind people about Data Center University training and certification. I have been doing the online courses and feel they are excellent.

• I've been playing around with Summize a little more recently. I think this is a pretty cool little tool that has potential to be really useful. It basically searches twitter posts in real time, shows search term trends, and allows you to RSS your search.